ASSIGNMENT SET-1

Name : Hadera Tesfay Gezahegn

Registration No. : 531011017

Learning center : Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Learning Center Code : 02546

Course : Master of Business Administration-MBA

Subject : Operations research

Semester : Semester II

Module No. : MBA0048

Date of submission : 20/01/2011

Marks awarded : _________________

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Directorate of Distance Education

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Sikkim Manipal University

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Q.1. a. “Operation Techniques is a branch of mathematical
techniques.”Comment.
b. “Operation Research is an aid for the executive in making his
decisions based on scientific methods analysis”. Discuss the above
statement in brief.
Q.2. Comment on the following statements:
a. Operation Research advocates a system approach and is
concerned with optimization.
b. Operation Research replaces management by personality.
Q.3. Explain how the profit maximization transportation problem can
be converted to an equivalent cost minimization transportation
problem.
Q.4. Write the difference in the simplex solution procedure for a
maximization problem and a minimization problem of linear
programming.
Q.5. What do you mean by the two-phase method for solving a given
LPP? Why is it used?
Q.6. Indicate any four shortcomings of taking a simulation approach
to solve an O.R. problem.
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